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I don't have access to Nature anymore: does this transistor actually allow gain? Or is this again one of the 'we made a transistor' claims where you cannot poss

I don't have access to Nature anymore: does this transistor actually allow gain? Or is this again one of the 'we made a transistor' claims where you cannot possibly build any reasonable circuit out of the parts, because the transistors have a gain < 1? Having dealt with carbon nanotubes as part of my M.Sc. thesis, I miss a comment on that and another major obstacle: can we properly manipulate and align these components to structure circuits? We are still a long way from that with nanotubes.

graphene 17y ago
About the gain: from the comments on other sites (I believe ars technica) I seem to remember this was indeed the case, but I can't be sure.. (I don't have access either from my holiday destination). As for real circuit fabrication, you are absolutely right; I would even go so far as to say that placing these individual molecules in some kind of circuit topology is an order of magnitude harder than doing the same with CNTs. I don't think they've even started working seriously on that problem yet, and I wouldn't, either; you have to be able to make reasonable amounts of working devices first...